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Dr Rounaq Nayak's Outputs (18)

The future of charitable alternative food networks in the UK: An investigation into current challenges and opportunities for foodbanks and community markets (2023)
Journal Article

This study examines the potential of charitable alternative food networks (ANFs), specifically community markets, as a complimentary solution to existing food aid efforts in response to food insecurity. While foodbanks play a crucial role in providin... Read More about The future of charitable alternative food networks in the UK: An investigation into current challenges and opportunities for foodbanks and community markets.

Radiography as a sociotechnical system – improving patient identification with a multi-level human factors approach (2022)
Journal Article

Irradiation of the wrong patient or wrong site is a reportable adverse event for hospitals. Improvement efforts to date have been narrowly targeted, often without consideration of wider contextual factors. This study applied a systems human factors/e... Read More about Radiography as a sociotechnical system – improving patient identification with a multi-level human factors approach.

Development of a framework to capture the maturity of food safety regulatory and enforcement agencies: Insights from a Delphi study (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to present the first stage of work being undertaken to develop and evaluate a maturity framework designed to assess and benchmark the effectiveness, ability to achieve continuous improvement, and optimise processe... Read More about Development of a framework to capture the maturity of food safety regulatory and enforcement agencies: Insights from a Delphi study.

A socio-technical approach to food safety incident analysis using the AcciMap model in the hospitality sector (2022)
Journal Article

A theory-based systems approach, such as AcciMap accident analysis, has been widely used over the years in multiple safety critical sectors such as the nuclear, petrochemical, aviation and railway industries to provide a detailed understanding of com... Read More about A socio-technical approach to food safety incident analysis using the AcciMap model in the hospitality sector.

Human factors and ergonomics systems-based tools for understanding and addressing global problems of the twenty-first century (2019)
Journal Article

Sustainability is a systems problem with humans as integral elements of the system. However, sustainability problems usually have a broader scope than socio-technical systems and therefore, require additional considerations. This requires a fuller in... Read More about Human factors and ergonomics systems-based tools for understanding and addressing global problems of the twenty-first century.

The assessment of food safety culture: An investigation of current challenges, barriers and future opportunities within the food industry (2016)
Journal Article

Following the 2005 E. coli O157 outbreak in the UK and the recommendations in the subsequent Public Enquiry Report in 2009, the topic of food safety culture became more prominent. In 2012, the United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency (FSA) commissioned... Read More about The assessment of food safety culture: An investigation of current challenges, barriers and future opportunities within the food industry.

‘When Food Kills’: A socio-technical systems analysis of the UK Pennington 1996 and 2005 E.coli O157 Outbreak reports (2016)
Journal Article

In 1996 and 2005, two of the largest E. coli O157 outbreaks occurred in the UK. Many people were infected after consuming meat resulting in a number of deaths. In the present study we applied a systems approach to both the outbreak reports to analyse... Read More about ‘When Food Kills’: A socio-technical systems analysis of the UK Pennington 1996 and 2005 E.coli O157 Outbreak reports.